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HUBBARD, WILLIAM. The Present State of New-England. Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677. London: for Tho. Parkhurst 1677. Small 4to, 194 x 146 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.), nineteenth-century blue gilt panelled morocco, spine gilt, g.e.; upper hinge cracked, joints and extremities rubbed, lacking first leaf blank, the folding map with neatly repaired 3-inch tear and small repair to lower blank corner, lightly washed and pressed . Second edition, license leaf, woodcut folding map of New England (296 x 385 mm.). First London edition of the most accurate of the King Philip's war narratives and "a corner-stone authority on the subject" (Howes). The extremely rare first edition, printed in Boston earlier the same year, was among the first books printed there; its map is thought to be the first map of America to have been printed in this country. The present edition, issued only three months after the Boston edition, reprints the text word for word, while correcting many of the earlier edition's typographical errors (only the 12-line Errata was not reprinted). The large woodcut map is a copy of the map in the Boston edition (both showing East and West reversed), several of the place names being misspelled, the most obvious discrepancy being the substitution of "The Wine Hills" for the "White Hills" of New Hampshire, these errors presumably indicating that the new block was cut in England. COPIES WITH THE MAP ARE RARE. The Streeter and Middendorf copies are the only two complete copies to have appeared at auction in the past 35 years. Church 651; Field 7331; Howes H756; Sabin 33446; Streeter sale II, 641; Wing H-3212.